WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME III

FLORIDA NARRATIVES

Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Florida

INFORMANTS

Anderson, Josephine
Andrews, Samuel Simeon
Austin, Bill

Berry, Frank
Biddie, Mary Minus
Boyd, Rev. Eli
Boynton, Rivana
Brooks, Matilda
Bynes, Titus

Campbell, Patience
Clayton, Florida
Coates, Charles
Coates, Irene
Coker, Neil

Davis, Rev. Young Winston
Dorsey, Douglas
Douglass, Ambrose
Duck, Mama
Dukes, Willis

Everett, Sam and Louisa

Gaines, Duncan
Gantling, Clayborn
Gragston, Arnold
Gresham, Harriett

Hall, Bolden
Hooks, Rebecca

Jackson, Rev. Squires

Kemp, John Henry (Prophet)
Kinsey, Cindy

Lee, Randall
Lycurgas, Edward

McCray, Amanda
Maxwell, Henry
Mitchell, Christine
Moore, Lindsey
Mullen, Mack

Napoleon, Louis
Nickerson, Margrett

Parish, Douglas
Pretty, George

Scott, Anna
Sherman, William
Smalls, Samuel

Taswell, Salena
Taylor, Dave
Thomas, Acie
Thomas, Shack
Towns, Luke

Williams, Willis
Wilson, Claude Augusta

Combined interviews [TR:  County names added]

Dade county, Florida, ex-slave stories
  Charley Roberts
  Jennie Colder
  Banana Williams
  Frank Bates
  William Neighten
  Rivana Boynton [TR:  Riviana in text]
  Salena Taswell

Dade county, Florida, folklore
  Annie Trip
  Millie Sampson
  Annie Gail
  Jessie Rowell
  Margaret White
  Priscilla Mitchell
  Fannie McCay
  Hattie Thomas
  David Lee

Folk stuff, Florida
Jules A. Frost
Tampa, Florida
October 20, 1937

JOSEPHINE ANDERSON

HANTS

“I kaint tell nothin bout slavery times cept what I heared folks talk about.  I was too young to remember much but I recleck seein my granma milk de cows an do de washin.  Granpa was old, an dey let him do light work, mosly fish an hunt.

“I doan member nothin bout my daddy.  He died when I was a baby.  My stepfather was Stephen Anderson, an my mammy’s name was Dorcas.  He come fum Vajinny, but my mammy was borned an raised in Wilmington.  My name was Josephine Anderson fore I married Willie Jones.  I had two half-brothers youngern me, John Henry an Ed, an a half-sister, Elsie.  De boys had to mind de calves an sheeps, an Elsie nursed de missus’ baby.  I done de cookin, mosly, an helped my mammy spin.